In the eighth month of the second year of Dareyawesh, the word of YHWH came to Zekaryah son of Berekyah, son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

' YHWH was very wroth with your fathers.

'And you shall say to them, 'Thus said YHWH of hosts, 'Turn back to Me,' declares YHWH of hosts, 'and I shall turn back to you,' declares YHWH of hosts.

'Do not be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying, 'Thus said YHWH of hosts, 'Turn back now from your evil ways and your evil deeds.'' But they did not obey or give heed to Me,' declares YHWH.

'Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

'But My words and My laws, which I commanded My servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers?''Then they turned back and said, 'As YHWH of hosts planned to do to us, according to our ways and according to our deeds, so He has done with us.''''

And I said to the messenger who was speaking to me, 'What are these?' And he said to me, 'These are the horns that have scattered Yehudah, Yisra'el, and Yerushalayim.'

And YHWH showed me four craftsmen.

And I said, 'What are these coming to do?' And he spoke saying, 'These are the horns that scattered Yehudah, so that no one lifted up his head. But these come to trouble them, to throw down the horns of the gentiles that lifted up their horn against the land of Yehudah to scatter it.'